It seems to me that the experience gained here is based too much on voting. There is a 25% chance of getting experience for every vote, and 50% experience for each vote if all are used. This equates to a 75% chance of experience per vote, compared to only a 33% chance of experience when you're voted for. Not to accuse anyone of anything, but I've noticed a few people gaining large amounts of xp with long periods of not postings things. The amount of xp given for using all votes also contributes to people wanting to hand out votes just to get the xp, and leads to some posts being overvalued. The amount of votes given are also too high.. What I believe this all adds to is people posting re-statements of other answers to try to get experience, and since there are so many votes laying around, these nodes end up getting voted for.

I'm not criticizing anything here, as I know the whole experience system is new, I just want to throw out my opinions on the matter.

First, I think all experience for voting should be eliminated, as it just encourages the xp hogs to throw around votes, perhaps to nodes that don't deserve them. The percentage thing for being voted on is good, as it adds a bit of non-predictability to the whole matter. Getting experience for logging in is also good, as it's not too much, and adds incentive for continued participation in the site.

I think settings things this way will help separate the people who have genuinely good answers and/or insight into perl from the people who just vote. What does anyone else think about this matter?

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